I know someday
you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a sun
In somebody else's sky
But why can't it be mine? -Pearl Jam

Posted 04 May 2013 - 04:31 AM

I think it is helpful to a debate to throw a little humor (FINE! humour... even though it has a squiggly red line under it spelled that way ) in on occasion however you have to be aware that humor doesn't translate very well sometimes, between cultures or with the written word. There will always be misunderstandings in a forum like this. There have been plenty of times when I've let a funny comment pass me by because I wasn't sure if people would 'get it'. I would just let the humor come naturally without forcing it and have the foresight to realize that you may have to explain yourself if things go south.

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to be honest, the idea came to me when we were talking to yond daft bugger, with his hollow earth thingy.
just when it started to get funny, the thread got shut down, and I thought, isn't there we could go for the equivalent of 'if you're gonna start scrapping, take it outside gentlemen', and i'm praying to the gods (and the goddesses AND the big bang!) that we can all get along and laugh at our differences, because, if you can't laugh at yourself, you've no right laughing at anyone else!
(and believe me, i'll ALWAYS be the first to call myself a dozy pillock!)
:-)

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-How do you sleep-
The Stone Roses.

to be honest, the idea came to me when we were talking to yond daft bugger, with his hollow earth thingy.
just when it started to get funny, the thread got shut down, and I thought, isn't there we could go for the equivalent of 'if you're gonna start scrapping, take it outside gentlemen', and i'm praying to the gods (and the goddesses AND the big bang!) that we can all get along and laugh at our differences, because, if you can't laugh at yourself, you've no right laughing at anyone else!
(and believe me, i'll ALWAYS be the first to call myself a dozy pillock!)
:-)

I just posted me making fun of myself and you post hollow earth lol, You are funny, try harder.

humor doesn't translate very well sometimes, between cultures or with the written word. There will always be misunderstandings in a forum like this.

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I hope not man, that's just the kind of thing I was hoping to avoid!
well, not ME avoiding it, i'd just find it funny and throw fuel on the fire, but I was hoping that the people who'd get offended would stay away.
(and stick to the religious threads instead.....)
:-)

"Get off your knees, the party's over."
.
-How do you sleep-
The Stone Roses.

Oh crap you thought this was not about humor but the bs about what big feets do for schitts and giggles my bad. Just to add I bet they fart and blaim the other guy opps bigfoots

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bloody good idea for a thread is that man!
if bigfoots, being, like, chewbacca sized folk, eat nothing but leaves 'n grass 'n stuff, then surely you should be able to smell their farts from miles away!
or at least hear 'em!
do you think bigfeet get together and go '**** me man, that stinks!! 7 out of 10...'
I mean, they ARE proto-human, aren't they?!
:-)

"Get off your knees, the party's over."
.
-How do you sleep-
The Stone Roses.